WoRMS taxon details

Eridacnis sinuans (Smith, 1957)

220035  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220035)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Found on the upper continental slope and outer shelf. Feeds on small bony fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods....  
Description Found on the upper continental slope and outer shelf. Feeds on small bony fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods. Ovoviviparous, with two young in a litter. Size at birth between 15 and 17 cm. Geographic or bathymetric segregation of populations by sex probably occurs as most specimens taken off Natal were male. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Eridacnis sinuans (Smith, 1957). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220035 on 2024-04-23
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Found on the upper continental slope and outer shelf. Feeds on small bony fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods. Ovoviviparous, with two young in a litter. Size at birth between 15 and 17 cm. Geographic or bathymetric segregation of populations by sex probably occurs as most specimens taken off Natal were male. [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LanguageName 
English African ribbontail catshark  [details]